Autonomous activism and the global justice movement

Aesthetic reflexivity in practice

Bibliographic Data

ID2398853
AuthorsAnn Deslandes (The University of Sydney), Debra King (0000-0002-3087-8805, Flinders University)
Year2006
Volume42
Issue3
Pages310-327
Publication date2006-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1440-7833 • E-ISSN: 1741-2978
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1440783306066729
OpenAlexW2133281815
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited16

In constructing new ways of engaging with society and new visions of how society might be, social activists need to negotiate numerous social, political, philosophical and personal contradictions and tensions. Utilizing data from a discourse analysis conducted on web-based texts, this article focuses on three such tensions experienced by autonomous activists: autonomy versus collective, operationalization versus institutionalization and evasion of versus subjection to mainstream authorities. We examine how autonomous activists negotiate these tensions and argue that the way in which they 'live with the tensions' can be theorized using Lash and Urry's concept of 'aesthetic reflexivity'. This particular form of reflexivity augments cognitive and emotional reflexivity within autonomous activism, and provides further insight into how autonomous activists succeed in reconstituting their practice in ways that reaffirm their principles

Autonomy · Epistemology · Governmentality · Mainstream · Media studies · Negotiation · Operationalization · Political science · Politics · Reflexivity · Social movement · Social science · Sociology · Vision · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Social and Cultural Dynamics

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